, 1887-06-16
JEDGE " AAEM ABROAD.
HE GOES DOWN TO CORNWALL ON
AN EXPLORING EXPEDITION.
He Takes In Penzance, Made Famous by
Gilbert and Sullivan, and gates
Lands End-His Opinions and Mandy's
CharacteristicalIy Expressed.

uhpe'' anu SuiiVah, anu inVestigHtes
Lands End-His Opinions and Mandy's
CiaracteristioalIy Expressed.
Especial Correspondence
PENzANcE, England, May 20.
had seen informed by an American who
knowed everything, and more too, that II 1
wanted to See the Wayback of England ]
ought to go down through the county of
Cornwall, and having made the trip am
free to state here that he was mighty nigh
right.
This town is about eighty-seven miles from
Plymouth and we come down on the Great
Western railway, the only road coming on
here. or course it's monopoly, and heerd
a lot of men in our car giving the company a
lambastin', just like free born, untrammeed
American citizens would do One of them
was drummer, and he kicked like steer.
He said the road was killing of all the coun-
try trade, and that vegetables were brought
over from France and sold in London at
prices that compelled the Cornwall farmers
| to let theirs rot In the ground. He was n
| Devonshire man, living in Bristol, and he said
the railroads there were just as grindin', and
that wheat had been shipped clear to Ameriky
and back cheaper than they could git 1t there
| by rail. / was most afeerd to put into the dis
cussion, for l had heerd that Engishmen
would bluff u stranger, but after a while
| tried it,
Excuse me, gentlemen says, hitchin
over their way, "but Of you air having so
thunderin' much trouble, why don't you leg
islate an interstate commerce bill through,
and have the administration appoint some
! commissioners like we Cir now rassling with
! in the United Statesp
"What is an interstate commerce billr y asst
| the drummer, very polite, much to my sur
prise, and the others give me ther attention,
explained our bill to them, about as near
as any living man has been able to, and told
them what the commissioners was expected
to do
ave have such officials here,' resumed the
drummer, shut our experience is that i'll de-
Gliding questions between the rich monopoly
end the poor people, they have always found
u method of not interfering with the mo-
nopoly. I am not making any accusations
but merely stating facts"
"That's all you've got to do,' says /.
"Human mater is human mater, wherever it
grows, and we know in Ameriky what rich
railroad corporation is liable to do when the
needcessity comes up"
Mandy had been watching the scenery
while 1 was talking on these state affairs, and
she called my attention to the country we
were passing through The train was slow
one, and we had fair chance to see what
was on the outside, and as we went deeper
into the country / kept close lookout.
There was a sight of good farming land but
it was powerful hilly, and there was more
stone fences than would build row of stone
fronts the whole length of Broadway, New
York.
Some of the ground though was so all fired
rough that sheep couldn't find picking on
to it, aud sticking up all around was ruins
of some kind, don't know what, till asst
The drummer told me they was dismantled
mines, and the engine houses and smoke
stacks goin, to wreck.
-.
Ponzanc1 amt famous for much except
for giving sne OF them comic oppery makers
I a chance ~ write sl,e "Pirates of Penaanoo,n y
which mas popular in Wayback last spring
1t Is about 500 years old, and has added
twenty people year to its population during
chat time, so that it now has 10000. 1t is q
summer resort of some note for the south of
England, and has lots of narrow crooked
streets, and houses that looks like last years
birds nests. A good many new houses of
stone have been put up lately, and it is partly
modern in places. The main business street
| is called Market Jew street, and at its head
in front of the combined town hall and market
house, stands II fine monument to Sir Hum
! phrey Davy, who was horn near the spot and
| who, besides being great man, invented
| Davy's safety lamp, which has made the
miners life much less dangerous one than
I formerly. IL done me good to learn that the
/ laborng people had contributed the money to
( put up the monument / amt no hero wor-
shipper, but have always admired old man
/ Davy, and felt little nearer to him when |
knowed that he gave the schools of Penzance
el00 in his will on condition that the children
Il
I think I'll do that in Wayback some time
but not just at present, hope.
Penzance has not got much of a herbor
and when big wind raises the sea dashes
over the stone wall in front OF the town and
fills all the houses in the low ground up to the
second story.
They've got quay and docks, built OF
stone, on the American PLAN that is, the
price of the work was TO he EOS 600, but be
fore they got it done the figures reached
100000 The citizens raised q fuss when they
found it out, but they finally done just what
we do-namely, to wit, grin and bear it ant
let the contractors take the doodle.
am finding out, as l go long, that Eng
land and us have good many pints of like
hess. At . o'clock in the morning wagon
cite called for us, and we set out for a ter
mile ride TO Lands End, the pint of country
where England stops, and about the only
pint where she does It was sunshiny day
something that happens about as often a.
the Goth Of February in this soggy atmos
phere-and we had good horse and a goot
breakfast and went out of Penzance like
picnic. On the way talked good deal with
the driver.
He was an American citizen by instinct
and told him he ought to come over and g
to talking politics and run for the legislature
believe he will some day.
He told me a good deal about the holding
of land and the exactions of landlords. 1t /
very difficult to buy the freehold of any land
and the owners usually lease it for long term
at high prices.
Land in America that could be bought out
right for from $40 to $50 an acre rents her
for from R3 to Els per year, and one farm o